I had issues installed with Homebrew - it didn't install the dependencies very well like Leptonica etc. but could just have been an issue I was having. Conversely MacPorts worked out of the box.
On 20 August 2015 at 13:44, Nick White <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I was looking at the Tesseract wiki, and it states that "The easiest > way to install Tesseract is with MacPorts." I don't think that is > true any more. MacPorts requires XCode to be manually installed > before it can be installed, which doesn't look like it's very simple > for a non-expert. > > Homebrew seems much simpler, plus it is very popular, doesn't > require sudo, and is frequently updated, so I think we should be > recommending that first in the Mac OS X section of the wiki. Any > objections? I don't use a Mac myself, so possibly I am > misunderstanding something. > > My proposed new text is this: > > ## Mac OS X > > The easiest way to install Tesseract is with > [Homebrew](http://brew.sh/). Once it is installed, you can install > Tesseract, including all language data, by running the command: > ``` > brew install --all-languages tesseract > ``` > > If you only need English recognition you can instead install using > this command: > ``` > brew install tesseract > ``` > > Sound good? > > Nick > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "tesseract-ocr" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tesseract-ocr. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tesseract-ocr/20150820124418.GA6016%40manta.lan > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tesseract-ocr" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tesseract-ocr. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tesseract-ocr/CAORW5viY4%3DxifWLT0z3WhNwh5bKT6X2gpUTWCGapykAGbE6p_g%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
